I have a rackmount box with a 486 motherboard in it, that has an LSI-11 processor on an ISA bus card. The card has ribbon cables that go out to a card cage with hoary old PDP-11 i/o cards in it. So it's a PDP-11 machine that uses a 'modern' PC as it's supervisor.
I got it at a university surplus auction with two other systems as a lot. The other two systems were also PDP-11 boxes which I passed on to other collectors. The one I kept is the newest, and probably existed to keep some old data acquisition system going with minimal changes to the hardware/software. It's real PDP-11 hardware running as a hosted coprocessor on a PC. Some day I should power it up.
The reason the really old machines were heavy is that they used discrete transistors to make flop flops. So each bit of memory in some cases was an individual circuit board. I am talking about machines like IBM mainframes from before 1970.
It's kind of dissapointing to see tables filled with Dell laptops on the website. That's dull junk and not at all old.
Here in our town, WalMart came in, drove some of the worst gougers out of business (all those upper middle class store owners who have charged a ludicrous markup for years) and then when they outgrew the building they had built and started in, moved to a bigger building. Their old building has more new businesses in it now.
There's really little or no reason for us as consumers to upgrade to these formats that won't be cracked. Why upgrade into a medium that most of us don't have the equipment to decode.
I may be luddite but I still only buy DVD recordings. They're good enough for the screen resolutions that I enjoy viewing them on.
A lot of times, the members of these groups are net ragers, also known as keyboard warriors, who will do nothing at all violent when they step away from their keyboards.
The people they might incite or inspire to actual violence is a problem, but their ludicrous raging is just a common internet phenomenon.
The Raspberry Pi is designed for broad pedagogical support. It's not for hackers or nerds. It's to introduce school kids to hardware. It's a cheap package with a support organization behind it so that regular people, like school teachers, can come up to speed with it enough that kids get exposed to it.
It has never been intended to be a hacker's platform, nor a low-cost SBC for 20-70 year olds to use.
For the functions you describe, put a PIC microcontroller out on the end of a serial line, and configure it as an array of programmable timers to do those trivial timer functions you need. Your approach to me is like buying a Tesla, taking a wheel off and putting a pulley on it to connect a threshing machine. Way overkill hardware to perform a trivial task.
Rumor has it that the Mexicans will soon be eager to pay for and build the wall. All the jobs are moving down there and they'll need a wall to keep work-seeking Americans out.
Like many other mediums, once they start censoring, they should lose any Common Carrier status or equivalence. Thus, Twitter becomes responsible and liable for content they carry. Let's see how many paid moderators they can afford. The lawyers could get rich on this stuff.
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I have a rackmount box with a 486 motherboard in it, that has an LSI-11 processor on an ISA bus card. The card has ribbon cables that go out to a card cage with hoary old PDP-11 i/o cards in it. So it's a PDP-11 machine that uses a 'modern' PC as it's supervisor.
I got it at a university surplus auction with two other systems as a lot. The other two systems were also PDP-11 boxes which I passed on to other collectors. The one I kept is the newest, and probably existed to keep some old data acquisition system going with minimal changes to the hardware/software. It's real PDP-11 hardware running as a hosted coprocessor on a PC. Some day I should power it up.
The reason the really old machines were heavy is that they used discrete transistors to make flop flops. So each bit of memory in some cases was an individual circuit board. I am talking about machines like IBM mainframes from before 1970.
It's kind of dissapointing to see tables filled with Dell laptops on the website. That's dull junk and not at all old.
Only to Spock when he's stoned.
With that high UID and a nick like Feral Nerd, I can see why you're touchy about use of the term 'hipster.'
Yes, the non Jony Ive editions.
Nobody does have a reasonable expectation of privacy on their work phone.
My father worked for IBM for 30 years, starting in 1956. But the 'I' in IBM has stood for 'International' for much longer than that.
The flames will and are spreading to the Democratic party. It's all really just one big amalgam anyway.
Burn, baby, burn.
Here in our town, WalMart came in, drove some of the worst gougers out of business (all those upper middle class store owners who have charged a ludicrous markup for years) and then when they outgrew the building they had built and started in, moved to a bigger building. Their old building has more new businesses in it now.
Apparently the world pays for what you can take from it.
it is losing the ability to speak the "holy" arabic language .
The irony here is that arabic language speakers are a 'tribe' in this context.
Pardon me, but isn't there a less biased source to link to for this issue?
9to5mac sounds like a fanboy site. Are we going to have stories linked to Infowars, Free Republic or DailyKos about Hillary before long?
Sometimes that's just the deal you sign up with when you decide to travel by air.
You're welcome.
There's really little or no reason for us as consumers to upgrade to these formats that won't be cracked. Why upgrade into a medium that most of us don't have the equipment to decode.
I may be luddite but I still only buy DVD recordings. They're good enough for the screen resolutions that I enjoy viewing them on.
A lot of times, the members of these groups are net ragers, also known as keyboard warriors, who will do nothing at all violent when they step away from their keyboards.
The people they might incite or inspire to actual violence is a problem, but their ludicrous raging is just a common internet phenomenon.
The Raspberry Pi is designed for broad pedagogical support. It's not for hackers or nerds. It's to introduce school kids to hardware. It's a cheap package with a support organization behind it so that regular people, like school teachers, can come up to speed with it enough that kids get exposed to it.
It has never been intended to be a hacker's platform, nor a low-cost SBC for 20-70 year olds to use.
For the functions you describe, put a PIC microcontroller out on the end of a serial line, and configure it as an array of programmable timers to do those trivial timer functions you need. Your approach to me is like buying a Tesla, taking a wheel off and putting a pulley on it to connect a threshing machine. Way overkill hardware to perform a trivial task.
Lotsa damage control work, there, dude.
Do they pay you overtime? Or are you an unpaid cultist?
If Wall Street caught even a whiff of a rumor that Apple was considering leaving the Chinese market the stock price would plummet.
Rumor has it that the Mexicans will soon be eager to pay for and build the wall. All the jobs are moving down there and they'll need a wall to keep work-seeking Americans out.
Logic is the glue circuitry that connects the higher-order chips. In older times the logic circuitry made up the entire processing unit.
His doctor says he doesn't need to take the medication any longer.
And he's allowed to attend summer camp.
Maybe they should evacuate Martha's Vineyard and cover the whole land mass with windmills.
A penny is a British coin that ceased being minted in 1967.
They're big and round and copper. Big enough to cover up a dead man's eyes.
Like many other mediums, once they start censoring, they should lose any Common Carrier status or equivalence. Thus, Twitter becomes responsible and liable for content they carry. Let's see how many paid moderators they can afford. The lawyers could get rich on this stuff.